As a health teacher, health is constantly changing. It is sometimes difficult for my students to keep up with the ever present misinformation about exercise, diet, and various other aspects of health. Just typing health into Google brings up such a wide array and often times confusing amount of information.
Below are some reliable resources that I use personally and encourage my students to use when exploring health topics via the web.
Brainpop.com
-a great resource for teachers and students to get factual information about various aspects of health including physical, emotional, and mental. Brainpop also offers supplementary materials like quizzes and graphic organizers to help students grasp various health concepts from the nervous system to cyber-bullying. I often use brainpop videos as a means of introducing topics in class.
Centers for Disease Control (cdc.gov) and National Institutes of Health (nih.gov)
-great resources with a wealth of information on various non-infectious and infectious diseases. Often these sites are used by students completing research based assignments in my class.
In addition to using these resources, I visit the media center with my classes where students can be educated by the media specialist on how to access databases and how to interpret search results. I believe educating students consistently to decipher information and separate fact from fiction is a great way to steer them towards reliable web sources and away from misinformation.
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